The master record board tracks the fastest time for every race in the season program, separately for each of the four game versions. Beat a course record at home and post it: if your time beats the board it goes live instantly, and everyone sees it. Each race keeps a Top 10.
There are two ways to submit and both take about a minute. If you play with one of our packs, use the first one.
If you downloaded the 4-Player or 8-Player pack, the uploader is already in your folder. Nothing to install.
Set up your own Flycast, or playing on a Mac or Linux? Use the web uploader — no install needed.
Your records live in the cabinet save that Flycast writes — a file ending in .nvmem. In our packs it’s tucked inside your game folder, and the Submit My Records tool finds it for you. In a self-setup it’s in your Flycast data folder.
Only the four supported versions are accepted: World Edition (Rev C), Export (Rev D), DOC 2000, and DOC ’99. Your save is read for its race times only — nothing else is taken — and your save is never modified.
Times read minutes.seconds.hundredths — e.g. 1.23.65 is one minute, 23.65 seconds — the same format as the in-game results screen (saved records always end in .0 or .5 — see Why board times end in .0 or .5). Ties go to whoever submitted first, and a record set by a CPU horse counts too.
Scan down the board and you’ll notice every time ends in .0 or .5 in the last digit — never a .62 or .47. That isn’t us rounding; it’s the original 2001 arcade machine.
When Derby Owners Club saves a permanent track record, it writes it on a coarse clock — about a twentieth of a second. The finer time that flashes up on the RESULT screen right after the race (the full hundredths, like 1.23.62) is shown live and then thrown away — the cabinet never saves it. So a board time can read a hair slower than the number you remember, usually by about 0.03–0.05 seconds.
Because every run is rounded the same way by the same game, rankings stay fair. The one quirk to know: two times within about 0.05 of a second can tie on the board, even when the RESULT screen would have split them.
Would a photo option be worth it? The only way to capture those finer RESULT-screen hundredths would be to let you submit a photo of the results screen and read the time off it automatically (OCR). We’re weighing it — would you use it? Let us know in our Facebook Group or on Discord. The honest catch: a photo can be edited, and with today’s AI that’s only getting easier to fake and harder to police — so we’d want a solid way to keep it trustworthy before opening that door. Until then, the save-based board stays the verifiable record of truth.
See a time that looks fake or impossible? Click the ⚑ flag next to it. Once a record collects a handful of reports it’s held for review and removed if it’s bogus — then the next-best time takes its place. Nothing is lost, so reverting is easy.
That’s everything — go set a record!